EP 1829045 A1 20070905 - PIPELINED PROGRAMMING OF NON-VOLATILE MEMORIES USING EARLY DATA
Title (en)
PIPELINED PROGRAMMING OF NON-VOLATILE MEMORIES USING EARLY DATA
Title (de)
ÜBERLAPPENDE PROGRAMMIERUNG NICHTFLÜCHTIGER SPEICHER UNTER VERWENDUNG FRÜHERER DATEN
Title (fr)
PROGRAMMATION EN PIPELINE DE MEMOIRES NON VOLATILES A L'AIDE DE DONNEES PRECOCES
Publication
Application
Priority
- US 2005043020 W 20051128
- US 1312504 A 20041214
Abstract (en)
[origin: US2006126390A1] The present invention presents techniques whereby a memory system interrupts a programming process and restarts it including additional data. More specifically, when a memory system programs data into a group of cells together as programming unit, programming can begin with less than the full data content which the group can hold. In one embodiment, the present invention allows overlapped programming of upper and lower data pages, where once the memory begins programming the lower logical data page, if data is received for the upper page assigned to the same physical page, programming is interrupted and recommenced with the concurrent programming of both the upper and the loser pages. In a complimentary embodiment, when a page contains multiple sectors of data, programming of the physical page can begin when one or more, but less than all, of the sectors forming the corresponding logical page have been received, stopped and restarted to include additional sectors of the page.
IPC 8 full level
G11C 16/10 (2006.01); G11C 7/10 (2006.01)
CPC (source: EP KR US)
G11C 11/5628 (2013.01 - EP US); G11C 16/0483 (2013.01 - EP US); G11C 16/10 (2013.01 - KR); G11C 16/12 (2013.01 - EP US); G11C 16/34 (2013.01 - KR); G11C 16/3454 (2013.01 - EP US); G11C 16/3459 (2013.01 - EP US); G11C 16/32 (2013.01 - EP US)
Designated contracting state (EPC)
AT BE BG CH CY CZ DE DK EE ES FI FR GB GR HU IE IS IT LI LT LU LV MC NL PL PT RO SE SI SK TR
DOCDB simple family (publication)
US 2006126390 A1 20060615; US 7120051 B2 20061010; AT E475185 T1 20100815; CN 100543878 C 20090923; CN 101107673 A 20080116; DE 602005022487 D1 20100902; EP 1829045 A1 20070905; EP 1829045 B1 20100721; IL 183833 A0 20071031; JP 2008523542 A 20080703; JP 4372196 B2 20091125; KR 101193584 B1 20121023; KR 20070101250 A 20071016; TW 200632921 A 20060916; TW I413125 B 20131021; US 2006126393 A1 20060615; US 2007014153 A1 20070118; US 7301805 B2 20071127; US 7345928 B2 20080318; WO 2006065518 A1 20060622
DOCDB simple family (application)
US 1312504 A 20041214; AT 05852349 T 20051128; CN 200580046901 A 20051128; DE 602005022487 T 20051128; EP 05852349 A 20051128; IL 18383307 A 20070611; JP 2007546706 A 20051128; KR 20077013359 A 20051128; TW 94142790 A 20051205; US 2005043020 W 20051128; US 30478305 A 20051214; US 46294606 A 20060807